Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Dragon Gods

[Music] hey there everyone AJ back again for the mighty glue stick channel I make videos about Dungeons & Dragons lore full-time and have collection of over 600 videos on monster ecology fantasy world history character classes and magic items on my channel if you like what I do please consider becoming a member of the channel by clicking the join button down below or backing me on patreon where you can get access to all of these scripts I write for these videos members of either also become members of the secret of gloom annatee on the discord server for the channel and of course subscribing to me here as I upload at least twice a week and have a live stream every weekend the time has come my friends to remaster the Dragons series and you gave me a very clear direction on how to go about doing that so today we're going to talk about the draconic pantheon my channel has always been devoted mainly to the most current edition and world setting for D&D so I'll talk about the dragon Pantheon and origin story mainly from a Forgotten Realms and fifth edition perspective bug one could not cover the broader subject of dragon cards and the truly pain dimensional multiversal nature of dragons without going over the many other world settings and variations because trying to stick to just one thing is what leads to some people getting very confused a great example being the nature of barment and Tiamat and the wildly conflicting origin stories and incarnations these cards take in various world settings and game editions but tube again as they say at the beginning sit back grab yourself a beverage we are about to get deeply nerdy dragon gods are not at all like the other gods nor are they exactly like the dizzying array of other primordial powers that arose before they were dreamed up by mortal beings the dragon gods are also contradictory and don't fit very well with other mythologies so some of the things I'm about to tell you will seem very biased in favor of dragons but of course it is this is the mythology of the Dragons one of the most arrogant and narcissistic species in the multiverse in many sources it warns very clearly that dragons do not tolerate views that contradict theirs when it comes to the origin nature of the multiverse and their supreme place in it and it would soon become very clear to you why that is aside from their aggressive and self-centered massive egos I must also stress that this is reality from the Dragons point of view it's not reality as it is it's their mythology also too often I see debates about what gods did this or that it very much depends on who you're talking to and can vary wildly so if something I say in this video seems wildly contradictory to say what you thought reality and Dendi was if you base that view on my video on the dawn war or the religion of the dwarves you must not confuse these racial belief systems with factual events or confuse the law of one edition with another if you can manage it though I'm the first to admit that this is a monumental task just watch my video on the Darrow to see a perfect example of how the mythology conceals their true origins also more often than not a fan of Dendy law will be highly focused on one or two specific things because they hold them dear to their hearts have many fond memories of them and have studied that lore in great detail which I most thoroughly appreciate as these people are gold mines of details in errata that's very hard to find on your own but also the flip side to that is they're almost dizzy lately protective of their lore as if something could ever damage will detract from it and they may ignore a great deal of other information that falls outside of their narrow more focused interests so well I do appreciate their knowledge it's hard to appreciate the attitude sometimes give others a chance to learn allow them their errors and provide assistance not scorn and smugness the sage only has merit in their service to others using the knowledge that they've attained with that being said let's get into the law in the beginning there was the first void and word then that was IO IO who is asked or ëthe who is the nine-fold dragon and there was the shadow void within that was iOS mirror self Crowe nipsey's who is also fellows or who is also no IO and Crenn Epps's came together from either end of the cycle of time and where they finally and first met was the beginning and the end this is why IO is represented by a perfect so because io is all IO is eternal crow nips has brought the multiverse to IO empty and cold and IO breathe life and potential back into it all as IO form the circle of eternity he became aware of all future events instantly knew every spell that would ever exist and is the true source of all the most epic and powerful magic in the multiverse many Dragons believe that the lady of pain was created by IO IO from the egg of a Dabu the mysterious race of beings native to the city of sigil and the center of the concordant neutral central plane of the multiverse a plane also known as the outlines which many believe I are regards to be his home a dragon sage has this to say IO swallower of shades shine in the face of your servant for he worships you in the morning he propitiate cyou in the evening I breathe the air the north wind which comes from you be content Lord of the gods for your exalted in the firmament and your raise over my breasts are like the day I owe the nine-fold dragon the concordant dragon the Great Wheel eternal moves his majestic form silently through the plains and crystal spheres through the other and the detritus of the worlds he is content IO is the creator of all dragon kind father of the sleeping deep dragons whose spirits lie at the very core of many worlds still the God whose blood thoughts and life force established ground for creation and sustain at all dragons believe that the structure of space and time itself is not just held together by these two aspects of IO but within newly refreshed shadow plane IO released his blood which became the phlogiston sea thus created the prime aterial plane and there certainly is a case to be made for it as the aspect of IO named esketh which is the manifestation of this presence on the world of torille has not only manifested as a physical avatar only once during the creation of the multiverse and that s aggress was so huge that even his scales which were blue edged were still over in dark purple with larger than any dragon that has ever existed which given the size of the stellar dragons that can reach 568 miles or 914 kilometers long probably much much larger and it gives you some idea that asketh simply manifesting an avatar and physically landing on a planet would be an extinction level event for every living creature on it he had the size kateri of a medium to large planetary body those beings who report having communicated with IO typically tell the dreamlike experience where they were drawn out of their body in astral form and flew through the astral plane beside the incredibly vast spirit of IO however there are also many myths of them manifesting and to any existing type of draconic form that he wished even down to as Tiny as a fairy dragon but why would he bother manifesting in such a way in a very real sense he is truly omnipresent the multiverse is his body therefore he is aware of what goes on every part of it and is present in every part of it all of the time forever they give some further insight into dragons that as direct creations of esketh they are perfect and everything in the universe is basically their God and their property the hoard of a dragon is not just wealth to it the very material is sacred to the dragon but I'm on a bit of a tangent here let's get back to the serpent pantheon monster mythology written by kal silent and published by TSR in 1992 has this to say about the serpent gods of the reptilian and draconic races and I'm quoting pages 97 and 98 here directly the gods of the reptilian and amphibious creatures of the Worlds include a powerful central group who in myth stand outside the rest of creation these deities are seen as ancient to the point of timeless primeval powers they are not associated with other gods of other races they do not create worlds or modify them much they simply have their being entered unto themselves this tends to make them more aloof from their cold blooded worshippers then most gods and they are usually slow to react to changes even across decades and centuries one consequences of this is that the erasers are in a process of slow but remorseless decline the katoa being an exact excellent example these deities are usually regarded as being very wise especially in their knowledge of very ancient and buried magic they're often intensely magical in nature themselves but they conceal these secrets and remain silent the group contains primarily for deities who form two pairs mere shulk god of the aunty and blib dual poop the kyoto and goddess are both gods of a declining races who are themselves fairly and active and somewhat uncaring mayor salt is detached to the point of deep hibernation rarely even bothering to wake itself with the affairs of the prime material whereas the koto and goddess envelops yourself within her secluded realm hating everything outside it the other pier is intriguing because of the two deities are multi aspect gods I owe the nine-fold dragon contains and within himself all the lineman's in a scene by eight dragons as the great creator of all things including themselves dragons are very touchy about this just as mortal dragons considered that they have invented and devised just about anything and everything of any value or significance so they hold IO to have created all of the multiverse and to have had the grace to permit less important beings are the greater gods to play with and modify his creation subsequently dragons should not be argued with on this point chicken esta the naga queen is a triple aspect goddess with aspects of lawful good chaotic evil and pure neutrality she appears in the form of a maiden a Crone and a mature female coiled within the halls of the court of light the naga goddess is the embodiment of practical wisdom a great wise serpent as is IO himself Jerzy rien the coatl god also has an affinity with the central group although coatl think of him in a very subtle terms as a perfect archetype which exists in other less perfect world serpent forms this is a variation on the same theme which IO and cheekiness to represent that of a multiplicity of being thus these very ancient reptile gods have become please city which parallels the great page in wisdom the other deities sometimes bracketed with them as singular crow nips us the death dragon presider over time fate and eternal law crow nets us never speaks or communicates and if he knows the end of all things he isn't going to be telling anytime soon this mute God is seen as in some reckon it myths as a reinforcer os perfectly balanced extension of being into these worlds just as I became all things Kranitz this draws everything back into himself sometimes fittingly these two are seen as brothers and represented together in a very complex symbol which has at its center the image of the nine headed dragon with a nine-fold forked tail each hid swallowing a tail both IO and chicken esta have server today at ease errant children of the opposite sex who are playful wayward and sometimes willing to allow mortals a peek into the secrets their powerful parents guard carefully iOS daughter SD Iranian is chaotic flighty playful and laughing and is nothing of the gravity of their mighty father she serves io as a messenger but not a variable reliable one and other things she is readily distracted from any tasks he gives you and myth she has no mother and is born directly from iOS being in a highly complex manner involving many ruminations in symbolic ponderings by the nine-fold father this mythology is confusing and exists only in partial forms among dragons who don't talk much about it anyway and is also inconsistent from world to world chicken Esther's son para fear is like wiser being with a light spirit he's a trickster also but he is more thoughtful and wise than the young dragon goddess para Thera is a protector of secrets and concealed wisdom a guardian as his mother errs but these secrets are not of his own being as his mothers are still he is a clearly closer in nature to his parent than Esther in Ian who was also has a same-sex parent usually good jazz Aryan in Naga mythology despite the quarrels hermaphroditic nature which is not represented in Naga mythology Nagas cinge's Irian in his male aspect both this Estonian and para fair a chaotic neutral in nature however and despite the eliteness in lung and liberty meetings with them can be dangerous indeed of all these powerful reptile gods none as good aligned the old gods did lib do poop and mil shulk evil while the others are poly aligned none of them regards the virtues of good as worthy of primary respect nor as goals in themselves they are either despised or part of a greater balance of nature the avatars of these gods have certain features in common which make them distinctive they all have high magic resistance especially the avatars of the dragon and naga gods reflective of their intensely magical nature of these creatures and of the creations of these gods they also have exceptional wisdom scores befitting very ancient deities and related properties such as immunity to illusions which affect reptilian minds very differently in any event these qualities are represented irrespective of strength of the God which manifests an avatar even a demigod avatar from this group will have relatively high resistance to magic and high wisdom besides a stir in e'en IO has formed a series of Dragon gods across the world's many local Pantheon's have such demigods or elemental forces in which white or red dragon gods are common or of magic where gold and silver dragons gods are common or trickery which is rare since Estonian often has this role but chaotic good demigods are present in some Pantheon's and more none of these demigods have priests or shamans and none of the Tri comic deities do IO has empowered his creations with such physical strength and magical nature that he does not see any place for priesthoods and many dragons can use priests and clerical spells anyway so let me just draw your attention to that part dragons feel no need to become the equivalent of a cleric or paladin of any intricate god Dragonborn certainly do as do some cobalt and such but true dragons do not the countless minor draconic demigods are of no great concern the mythology and law for them would fill a thousand libraries no what we're looking into is the archetypical dragon gods and the three other children of the nine fold dragon all born of his own being are important enough to be considered Bahamut the glorious and resplendent platinum dragon is lord of gold and silver dragons and a powerful upholder of the values of lawful good here's something of those parents detachment and is not eager to involve themselves directly in the affairs of the prime material plain but unlike I oh he is watchful and encourages worshippers Bahamut even has a handful of human and demi-human worshippers in some worlds certainly on the planet torille this is the case and in human myth he often keeps a special watched over paladin's of exceptional nobility Tiamat his lawful evil sister is a different creature altogether she is the embodiment of the most organized and powerful evil within IO murmuring Bahamut who is a near-perfect actualization of i/os best goodness Tiamat has taken up residence and the hills and enjoys life there and so much as this victorious brute can be said to enjoy anything she struts about proclaiming herself as the creator of all evil dragons she's often seen as having dwelt for a long time in the prime aterial and her time there is marked by a role as a spoiler but also as a creature powerful and magic and even with a fertility aspect due to here fork and nature after this time she withdrew to the hills and many races have a myth which tells of her banishment different myths though have many different gods responsible for this banishment Bahamut is assisted by a son or a sky god in banishing Tiamat but this is a different God from world to world for the most part phallus er the night dragon is in some ways the most dangerous and sinister of i/os great broods ravely beautiful in his perfect black and deep blue scales a handsome dragon of shadows and illusion is a brilliant gifted master of disguise who keeps his own counsels and has not the recklessness of Tiamat phallus ER has a complex magical metabolism for his own beauty and perfection require a constant stream of death for their sustenance while the shells of the creatures he slays become the undead creatures the dragon hairs for an entourage much more than any other dragon God phallus OA has become intimately involved in the affairs of other races providing they have lives and souls to steal for his home sustenance fellows er is an evolving evil one develop more powers related to undeath energy-draining rotting disease and the like when whose life force is entirely dependent on the death of others so if I may interject here in that respectful Azura is like the slighty god eagle and that his power is growing as interim ii increases in the multiverse over time of course you Gor is doing a backwards there are many stories told by sages of the interrelation of life forces and strength of gods and mortals but nothing is as dreadful as fillers ores leaching of worlds and souls IO gave birth to a truly terrifying Beauty and the sleek and ever smiling night dragon if I may go on a little tangent here those of you who watch my veal and Vecna will know that a primal serpent demigod whom vecna's mother served in life also became a source of much of the deep and forbidden magical knowledge that Vecna attained while he was a mortal being I suspect strongly that this was an aspect of the serpent demigod para fear para ver is a guardian of magical secrets and hidden places and usually far below the ground and he serves more than any God in this way both his own mother's chicken esta and very diverse assortment of other gods including even such unlikely candidates as dumb Athena of the dwarves para fears role is not to prevent access to social secrets and magic and Ty Lee though rather he tests the wisdom and resourcefulness of those who come seeking he places non-lethal craps decoys diversions mazes cryptic clues and the like to challenge the adventurous he will himself present riddles and puzzles which demand an answer if he is to permit Questers to pass him by he is unconcerned with morality or ethics simply caring for the mental resource or - and the skill this is echoed throughout so many practices of magical learning that it is a para fear is the original architect of the relationship between mystical master and the adept student para fear does have one weakness however which is shared by a great many dragons and I imagine a great many wizards as well that is flattery which focus on the smartness of his riddling his puzzles and challenges all expressed as admiration for his skills a comments such as a heartfelt that was sneaky we had a lot of trouble dealing with that will gain some mileage with the wise but slightly vain para fear attempts to deceive or tricking did not go down well unless there is a spectacularly well planned and executed degree that para fear feels he's learned something new just by experiencing it let's take a closer look at iOS other children I remind you here that IO is a multiversal power some of his children owed gods of Grayhawk some are gods of the Forgotten Realms summer gods of Dragonlance I focus mainly on Forgotten Realms so I'll be looking at them in this history of dragons in round space on the world tutoral originally on the world of torille the greater draconic gods whereas graph null and task the intermediate deities worker ESCA nathair sky fetch and Zork one the lesser deities were astir liable as haru bahamut Garrett's halal Cal Zahra Ned Linda's sorry or Tamara and tier met with a number of demigods such as ku Uther the pantheon looks much different now and it has a very long involved history the dragon pantheon has a realm of its own in the form of a single plane consumed containing a massive mountain which only very few of the Gods having permanent layers there but it is accessible to the rest of the track on accords and with many different ways to get here for example Tiamat can get there from her home on the hell of Avernus and there are other portals open to the celestial realm of Arav and or if you have not heard of dragon re it's because the dragons don't share this information with non dragons so let's take a look at advanced understand dragons second edition source book titled the cult of the Dragon written by a large group of authors with the lead design by Dale Donovan and published by TSR in 1998 I'll try to quote the law on these dragon cards directly where I can with paraphrasing is of course as is my way after which I'll talk about the drink Draco holy wars and the era called the Dragon for war which will bring us up to the modern era on torille this is a good point to pause and refresh your beverage by the way as Grethe now also known as the world shaper is a greater power of the outer Plains he is said to Anne as all alignments in his being but he is often regarded as neutral his portfolio is creation and is symbol as an unadorned circle representing totality and the outer Plains he is more commonly known as IO and the location of his domain is unknown perhaps he simply exists as IO and manifests when required as as Grethe on the world tutorial s syllable known as acquisitive and horde mistress is a chaotic neutral intermediate power of limbo her portfolio is acquisitiveness specifically the desire to acquire and hold wealth and in doing so gain status assembled as a twelve faced gym she is one of the archetypes of dragon client who avatar manifests as a huge dragon that shimmers with all the chromatic and metallic colors of dragons who mythical lair may be located somewhere in the chaos of limbo and it would represent one of the greatest halls of treasure you could imagine a slab or had instills in dragon kind the innate need for collecting and protecting the horde but this is not greed she actually dislikes greed she just loves big piles of treasure garrix I often get requests to talk about this formidable god known as fire Lord all destroyer and cleanser of worlds he is chaotic evil an intermediate power of the abyss his portfolio is fire using dragons and destruction by flaming as symbol is reptilian is superimposed over a red flame he manifests as either a colossal red dragon or gold dragon but in either form he breathes massive destructive dragon fire that is like the corona of the Sun the dragonomicon says that garrix has a lair in the abyss that was published in 1990 the source book races of the dragon published in 2006 tells us that he has been driven insane from leering for too long on the plane of pandemonium he is oddly enough worshiped by some druids as a revered force of destruction and renewal claiming that destruction devastation is the necessary precursor of rejuvenation on the world of torille he was central to the events that led to the start and eventual end or ceasefire in the genocide war between the dragons and the giant Empire of historia the started about twenty seven and a half thousand years ago so very ancient Street and though it was an extremely important era it only lasted for a thousand years as wars between massive and powerful creatures goes this is a very long time granted but it was a long time ago that war started only 1,000 years after the great migration of the drained green elves from the Faraon to the world tutoral interestingly some rogue gold dragons still revere garrix in his aspect as the cleanser of worlds but garrix is not interested in worshippers or relationships with other gods he teaches by example actually manifesting on the prime material plane worlds to wreak unholy swaths of destruction across the landscape red dragons do tend to flock to him when he shows up hello known as the Jester or the pursued is a chaotic good lesser power of our boria and is guard her portfolio is draconic humor inventiveness and pleasure and her symbol as a single white flame representing the light of wit and the outer Plains she is more commonly known as s Tyrion and is often regarded as chaotic neutral in alignment her domain is an arboreal is unknown but an is guard who domain brass Berg is in neat alveolar the Jester also has a male aspect known as a virtual or Quicksilver who features prominently in elven legions she is according to myth the first child of s Grethe and serves him as his messenger which is a duty she never takes lightly even though in most other things she's quite unreliable she never fails s Grethe flower manifests and whatever forms suits her purposes at any given moment if she's not in the process of playing a trick on someone she usually manifests as a fairy dragon that glows with a yellow gold aura or as a happy looking copper dragon as s Turanian she always manifests as a huge brass dragon owl is revered by some brass and copper and fairy dragons who appreciate and identify with her sense of humor these species don't worship Lyle alone however at least they devote their entire lives to jokes owl encourages who followers to think for themselves rather than relying on the word of others the worst crime in her eyes is not trusting in oneself she has little patience for tyrants even well intentioned ones and even less patience for cruelty bullying she teaches that one must be freed of restraint with a real or imaginary in order to freely express one's opinions if you watch the brass dragon closely you will see them Thank You hour when they learn something or create something new as they believe this honors here an elven folklore halal is a close companion of era vanilla Sarah and her aspect as Esther and in the two gods traveled together and get up to some legendary adventures that young elves find inspiring cars Aaron ed now-deceased was also known as the keeper of dark wonders and was a neutral evil gimme power of the gray wastes who was on good terms with the greater deity no his portfolio was dragon magic specifically the uncaring evil or selfish application of dragon magic the symbol was a five-pointed star encircled by a dragon grabbing its own tail in its mouth Cal's Aaron ed is said to have aided semester in creating the first grey College in 1350 8dr the dragon goddess Carrasco subsumed the entirety of his portfolio and worshippers Cal's Aaron adds corpse appeared in the astral plane shortly after now may also have been gifted with the secrets of creating undead direct lectures after quel tyranids passing Carrasco known as the wonder bringer or light of magic is a chaotic neutral intermediate power of limbo her portfolio is magic specifically dragon magic and magical creativity as simple as a five pointed star with the lower two points extended she is the dragon who first taught dragon kind how to wield magic and is able to empower any trick on a creature was well led at whatever level of spell casting abilities she wished it to have a sure sign she was showing favor to add ricotta creature as its sudden ability to cast spells will Hugh's spell like abilities so understandably she's revered by dragons of all kinds she most often shows favor to draconic beings who are particularly devoted to researching new spells have a talent for it and who frequently invoke your name in the hopes that she will imbue them with her power her natural form is unknown but when she manifests it can be as any kind of dragon however she is always surrounded by a pulsating aura of extremely potent magical power Linda's known as the scale of justice the balancer the wire of lives and the world Sabre is a lawful neutral intermediate power of the celestial plane of Nirvana this portfolio is balanced and justice and assemble as a sword balance on a needles point he is the consort of tomorrow and in some traditions they are the parents of Bahamut with the three of them commonly worshiped together Landis is the judge of dragons in life instead of after death and in his natural form he appears as a huge wingless platinum dragon with tarnished scales and eyes that gleam with the light which none may hide from he is said to care only about judging others and never turns his gaze on himself here's the personification of the principle that every action has a reaction and that everything has to be balanced at the end it is lend us who ensures that those who do evil acts are rewarded with evil those who do good receive good and those who live by the sword die by the sword he has no mercy in his soul no forgiveness and gives no second chances as an arbiter of great inclined Linda serves as judge jury and executioner when a dragon commits an injustice against all dragons Linda's or one of his great worm followers goes to dispatch appropriate justice punishments are severe and no one hears of anyone appealing to his mercy some of those dragon adepts follow the pet Aryan code which is recorded in the source book titled Dragons of fire and published in 2006 but is also noted in the troca nomicon published in 1990 it's a chronic code of honor created by the gold dragon pateros in the Asian past originally intended as a guide to conduct for the lords who attended the king of Justice who will learn more about the king of Justice when I make a video talking specifically about gold dragons the pitar encode eventually was adopted by a mini gold and also silver dragons and is very similar to the codes of chivalry adopted by legendary Knights orders of humanity it includes paying homage to Linda's as well as the chronic deities Bahamut and Tamara the code varies and its fine detail but the main precepts are justice and good above all honor and fealty to the king honor and respect to righteous innocence honor and duty to the balancer linda's and her mercy Tamara and the justice maker moment honor and protection to lesser races and correction to the enemies of justice and good honor in forbearance for oneself tamarah referenced to as who benevolence or or beneficence or her mercy there's a neutral good intermediate power of the celestial plane of Elysium her portfolio is life light mercy and forgiveness and assemble as a seven-pointed star on a field of black she is the consort of stone and implacable lenders and very important to gold and silver dragons in particular along with his son barman by far the kindest and most benevolent of the draconic deities though important to gold and silver the brass and copper dragons actively worship her as the patron goddess and theirs is a peaceful and merciful faith not as have aged as the golds and Silver's who lean more into the strict thoughtfulness of lenders and prosecution of a espoused by behemot in her natural form tamara is a huge windlass platinum dragon with burnished scales slightly smaller than Lena's she radiates a comfortable aura of warmth and love her eyes shining with the brightness of the Sun itself dragons who are healers and staunch enemies of the undead tend to be devoted to her tomorrow her temples are essentially hospitals and she feeis lead assists anyone who would seek to officially prolong prolong their life particularly those who seek to prolong the life of a dragon against its will so she hates record lectures above all things Bahamut known is the king of all good dragons just as maker lord of the north wind and also known by the name z more on the Forgotten Realms is a lawful good lethal power of Mount Celestia his portfolio is good dragons metallic dragons wisdom and enlightenment injustice just as tempered with mercy and punishment with forgiveness and his symbols are the polar star above a milky nebula or a reptilian eye superimposed over a square of gold his domain bahamut's palace is located in mercury ER in the seven humans of Silesia in some traditions he is said to be the son of tomorrow and linda's and in others he TMF and now or fala zoo are said to be children of esketh or IO Bahamut is stern in very disapproving of evil always arguing with Eska wrath about his crusade against it he accepts no excuses for evil and doesn't tolerate even minor offenses by evil creatures in spite of his stance he's also considered to be one of the most compassionate beams in the multiverse he has limitless empathy for the downtrodden the dispossessed and the helpless despite his lesser role and the rhetoric on ik pantheon he is an important god for the forces of celestial good Bahamut spends most of his time in court holding in his shining palace in the seven heavens and the plains of Silesia and is worth noting that barment is unable to turn his back on any good creatures that are in need though he is free to help them in indirect ways such as providing advice that borders on prophecy showing the way to safe refuge or healing with his powerful magic of a whole video on Bahamut which I'll be updating eventually as well Tiamat known as the dragon queen the queen of all evil dragons the chromatic dragon nemesis of the gods the Dark Lady Queen of chaos the undying Queen Bane of Bahamut the avaricious and the ruler of Infernus that's a lot of titles as a lawful evil lesser power of battle yet it is shocking to learn that her and Bar Hammett are so low on the pecking order of draconic gods right her portfolio includes evil dragons chromatic dragons evil reptiles so I'm thinking to moto dragons greed and the entire region of chess enter and unter on the continent of Ferran her symbol is a five headed dragon her domain TMS Lea is located in a varnish in some traditions she Bahamut also known as I more and know or fellas or are said to be children of SQL Ohio and the realms she's known as to Chasseur and the nation of Jacinta and was part of the enteric pantheon both Barnett and Tiamat have an eternal rivalry with each other and Tyrell is a planet from the prime material plane that seems to serve as one of the staging points or battlegrounds in this conflicts so they do appear to be more important gods from the perspective of their planet and its people then they really are in the grand view of the tronic pantheon in general Tiamat is a highly complex deity to say the least so instead to say the most I will turn directly to the words of heed Greenwood original creator of the Forgotten Realms setting teammates physical body like those of the chosen of mistre has been slowly failing over the much passing time regenerating ever more slowly inflicting hope that internal aches and pains tapping into the power of the growing growing in part because of the disaffected members of the cult of the Dragon who turned to here is the true one or the true hope worship and favoring as she did in the 1371 dr from the point of view of the inhabitants of torille renewed and strengthened t met and allowed you to truly become the dragon queen as you clergy on total reverence to some stronger and stronger yet this very experience of ailing and aging matey met until then a creature of bold fury and recklessness aggressive attacks suddenly more paranoid so she misinformed her clergy who were in no position to see through her life and no differently as to her celestial whereabouts and wealth and servitors and vast ruled Dominion she also became more scheming and patient and determined to spread parts of herself and to several places so as to survive the ravages of time and the eventual attacks of foes who great kingdoms on Heliopolis and later dragon diary were both largely fictitious she changed locations from one time to the to the other because of intrepid wizards adventuring from the realms and bhishma's Bish's members of the twisted rune seeking allies or sources of power that could plunder will compel actually reached here the obvious and discovered Tiamat had no realm there at all what she did have in Heliopolis was a lone spellbound shriveled literally half mad never ease at was it magically confined in a cave who was the listener of the five-headed he heard words of prayers made to teammate and saw her offerings and yielded up that information when tm8 visited his twisted mind if need be TMS sin sentience could move into the listeners mind and so beyond Heliopolis and even used the listeners by rich body as her own and survive if her five headed form was ever destroyed she apparently used the listener to at least twice to attack foes from behind when they had no idea that teammate was anything other than in front of them and alone she could also manifest an aspect of herself through him though she never did so in earnest rather than in mere brief experimentation no one on torille was aware of this when the twisted rune explorers found the listener and tried to mine scour him for magical and lore they uncovered TMS secret enraged she entered into the listener managed to mentally dominate the twisted rune mages and compelled them to assist her in relocating her dragon re by assisting her and mentally destroying and subsuming that draconic deity as Harrell whom she'd long been spying upon and scheming as rival that she could someday destroy she took over his body and rulership renaming his gigantic and labyrinthine cave layer on the in as the cave of greed to others in Dragon re and to priests and sages it remained the Dragon spawn pit server Sorrell and she merely assumed old Azurill fearsome bad-tempered draconic deity of many long sharp projecting body Barb's and a mighty mastery of magic so he'd hit on a new home for a name for his home but they didn't realize that Tim had had actually taken home his form completely she then used Azurill assisted by what was left of the listener and the controlled twisted rune Mesbah Wizards very much he has as she had done the listener back on Heliopolis the soft borders connecting dragon arrow to a furnace allowed Tiamat to visit the cave of greed whenever she wanted to but she apparently did so only once to convince dragons both living Inns and spirits and some uber shy to accompany her to a furnace and fight for her there for all this time the real Tiamat wasn't a Vernis in the nine hells rebuilding an ever-larger kingdom in the most inhospitable mountains and rift like alpine valleys of that layer that she'd long ago demoted from rulership of that largely that lawyer's lawless lair because she was so ineffective and preventing the various outcasts Devils therefrom repeatedly attempting coos that threatened the Dominion reverse mode yes though the supreme delved deep into her mind and saw no disloyalty he didn't destroy or otherwise Punisher merely left her to her own devices like facial like a watchdog reasoning that in building her own power she would fight against the outcasts and any other intruders far more effectively than she would otherwise and he also left her with the notion that she could earn her right who returned to rule as she if she pleased him enough was her performance formerly when she was given by Asmodeus the duty of guarding the largest and based on way between a Venus and the route by which dumb beasts lissa only at least Devils and armies gated and from elsewhere would have to pass through and she fulfilled this duty faithfully by stationing an aspect of herself there that never be parted or neglected that's duty so she's all over the place when the spell plate struct it didn't just affect Tyrell in their beer it's ripples tour through the multiverse wreaking havoc large and small dragon area was disintegrated and although the plane of that great dragon mountain was linked to Avernus and other planes and the tumult of destruction are stunned but half crushed Azurill physically talkin torn open like a butchered bird as described were one who saw his violent arrival and the Barents was hurled violently into Gehenna Bain hold where an opportunistic God Bain pounced on the dazed and physically ruined reckon it deity to enslave it and discovered TMS presence inside it and immediately sought to compel and rule her Tiamat was furious of course but left her true self still an awareness and she was wise enough to see that the challenges she was facing at the time from various ambitious outcast evils she could not hope to survive the battle on two fronts and she would have to exert his full power to defeat Bain and Bain hold so she allowed Bain to enslave that part of her that was as aural and even served him faithfully learning his secrets and relaying them wholly in accurately to Asmodeus as she burned them which pleased the overlord of Hell very much for his part Bain exalt Santorini and ruled not slaughter and destruction and so gloated in harassing in harnessing his new slave in any way that he could and Tiamat suffered all of those English movies and bided her time learning all she could have Bane's nature in powers awaiting her chance and when it came the details aren't known she strikes ruthlessly not only freeing herself from Bane's tourney and snatching his Ariel's body out of bond Bain Holden into a furnace she drained much of Bane's power to do so passing all that she didn't need to mend as Ariel's body and fully linked it with her own so that an awareness she has her true body and aspect guarding the way to this in a battle body or fighting body and then of Zara who uses what she uses to meet with all others keeping her true self safe and hidden so an adventuring encounter such as hand can be happen to the rise of tea adventure will be with this body enabling Tiamat herself to survive unscathed any adventurers attacks delighted by the gift of divine power torn from Bane who survived listening in might but not in essentials Asmodeus offered her the rulership of Avernus months more whereupon Tiamat surprised and touched him by saying she didn't want it because she wouldn't be good at it that Belle would do a better job and that Asmodeus shouldn't spurn him and so make him a foe and that Avernus needed to remain a largely wild safety valve for the nine hells to keep his rule strong but that she would willingly and devotedly be his champion on Avernus smiting all who worked against him whenever she became aware of this treason so Asmodeus held a great ceremony in which he named t met formally guardian to the gate of the second layer and his latest vessel he also privately urged her to provide covert medical aid to imprisons Ariel behind Belle's back to make sure that Bell didn't siphon all of is Ariel's power and become a problem when she did so she became Bell's compulsion and through this the hostile meeting of minds that saw Asmodeus had forewarned and prepared Belle to deal with you so as to establish firm control over here imprisoning her in the kingdom of Avernus so that she doesn't get his get above yourself and Kindle personal ambitions timet was a raid enraged and knew though she hid her iron from both Belle and Asmodeus and now believes that all the arc tables of the nine hells see her as a lesser being a mere monster to be duped and exploited determined to be caged nowhere and by no one she reaches out to her mortal worshippers in the realms and conceives of a way to manipulate them into bringing her at least an aspect of her fully into torille all of which has left her in this situation in location she's and at the beginning of the hoard of the Dragon Queen Adventure for fifth edition so sayeth Greenwood tasks known as the taker and the holder is and also the Resta as a chaotic evil lesser power of pandemonium his portfolio is greed and selfishness and his symbol is a pile of five coins his physical manifestation is a huge dragon whose hide is so started with coins and gems from snout to tail that it's impossible to determine his actual color of his scales followers of s label have long argued over the relative size of the hoard of both these dragon God's horde sizes always a popular topic amongst reckons anyway well as to labor is this deity of acquisition with no stigma of greed attached task is greed personified he wants at all and he doesn't matter to him what he has to do to get it or what costs it what it costs others to obtain what he wants his worshippers share the same attitude particularly red dragons but a fair few brass dragons are well known for their dark greed tasks Revere's greed and selfishness and sometimes rewards followers who show these traits in excess one such gift he grants as followers is to turn them into undead hoarded dragons on their death so that they continue to guard the treasures from opportunity opportunistic looters while it's believed that task spoons are never material since tasks can never give up anything he owns truly faithful meaning greedy dragons are rewarded with material goods created by task himself powerful artifacts though I suspect these items will always end up back in tasks hoard eventually Zhou Qin known as the high won the greatest worm is a neutral intermediate power of the Outlands this portfolio is dragon kind and dragon nests the essence of that witches dragons and has symbol as a black circle superimposed on a larger concentric white circle myths say that zulan can take the form of a perfect specimen of whatever species of dragon kind he wants his eyes crackle with sparks sometimes spitting lightning bolts that flesh and course around his body as his internal power overflows from within him he is the ideal draconic pinup model and it was his divine personifications of the pride and status of all dragons that led him to actually drive all the dragons of the Forgotten Realms towards a state of apathy in the active worship of the Taconic gods particularly during the time of dragons between minus 30,000 to minus 24,000 a reckoning when the draconic realms of argus tilly acts case and mauls ver direst River thicker and FAC Rick's gondry in context Zhou Qin is totally unconcerned dwith creatures of non-recurrent species unless their behavior affects all dragon kind in some way he is said to be an implacable any of enemy of any who would harm dragon mind as a race however he doesn't really care about individuals as such he never bothers to punish adventurers for killing the occasional chromatic dragon Sardi or known as the master of the gem dragons the Ruby dragon and the Prince of all neutral dragons as a neutral lesser deity with the symbol of a ruby that glows from within he is the god of night psyonix and secrets as well as the gem dragons he has manifested form is that of a bright ruby red long and sinewy body dragon he always looks like a stretched-out ancient Greek dragon but up closer he is clearly something very different his demeanor is conversational witty playful and he enjoys lounging around his men means flying castle named the Ruby palace which is in a weird pseudo pocket dimension technically orbiting the world and somewhere sometimes seen as a sort of a moon from the surface of torille down below but spell jammers have observed it orbiting in perpetual shadow on the other side of the world from the Sun and again looking more like a small red moon his realm is also able to shift between planes and on a number of occasions Satya has moved his fortress visiting the genie citadel of ice and steel within the S the plane of air and aura Boris the Parral move jay-z rien as a relatively young god Saudi or doesn't rank very high and as few worshippers or temples he does keep his own celestial court including five feigns each one for each of the breed of gem dragon except for the obsidian dragons who is he's banished for from his court for some reason he does have worshipers in the realms according to in Greenwood though there are not yet any printed products that talk about them last and one of the greater trick on ik gods we have no known as the Death Worm guardian of the last night dragon and the Reaver he's worshipped as two aspects of a dragon deity and the Tyrolean crystal sphere here he is regarded as both a lawful evil lesser god power of kasseri and a lawful neutral intermediate power of the Outlands this portfolio is death and the dead his evil aspect as the Reaver and his portfolio is at taking life decay and the undead any Drake energy draining and neck rot necromancy in his neutral aspect he's known as the guardian of the lost and as the guardian of the Dead the Shepherd of Dragon spirits in the afterlife the symbols are a circle divided diagonally into white and black semi circles for the guardian of the lost or Adric onyx skull for the Reaver in the outer Plains that is commonly known that null is in fact two different deities and in most areas known as phallus aura who is the rever aspect and as regarded as neutral evil and whose domain as the mausoleum of pain and manifests and also crone it's us who is that aspect called the guardian of the lost who was regarded as a neutral god whose domain is the mausoleum of Cronus in the Outlands as with most recollect eighties affair and nulls faith has been slowly dwindling for centuries and as of the fall of the gods he has but a handful of devoted adherents and some of whom were Undead since the Time of Troubles null has begun to does he make inroads among the sacred ones of the cult of the dragon nulls motivation is in part due to a desire to staunch his gradual loss of power and in part to counter TMS recent attempts to incorporate the followers of the scaly way into her own faith null is said to speak with the dusty croak of the undead he is arrogant fatalistic proud and totally lacking in any sense of humor the night dragon does not anger easily but in said slowly nurtures grudges that eventually blossom into undying hatreds for slights and attacks imagined to all otherwise nulls residences both mausoleums are said to coexist in part on the negative material plane and the plane of the deme plane of shadows will the shadow fell in fact the to death houses may in reality be one structure that exists both in the Outlands and was in the plane of kasseri now has a long-standing hatred of both tm8 environment who in some mythologies are said to be his siblings while null and Tiamat were once allied some rift in the prehistory of the realms has driven them into everlasting in enmity null nurtures a deep grudge that allow against Lao as a result of an elaborate practical joke that robbed the Death Worm of his dignity centuries ago well the death dragon has little patience for most of the other surviving draconian gods he bitterly resents Tamara's attempts to interfere with the inevitability of death and darkness and hates her with a special passion now let us turn our attention to the events called the draco holy wars and the dragon fall war the dragon holy wars were a series of serve was among dragon kind during the time of dragons over philosophical differences between different religious dogmas of the truckin and Pantheon the dragons of the time were devout followers of their gods and as such devoted devotion sparked intense wars among them these wars were fought not only between different species but also within the species as well the most violent Wars started because of the debate over ask rests alignment and nature every air species of Dragon believed Ostrogoths believe represented the pinnacle of the particular race while silver dragons could grudgingly accept the gold dragons insistence that asketh was a lawful good gold dragon neither could tolerate the Red Dragons claim that ass grass was a chaotic evil red dragon at one time the resulting Wars threatened the entire race with extinction an example of a civil war within the species was one related to the growing faith of battement which divided the usually monolithic gold dragon culture as the precepts of Bahamut became more popular the younger Gold's began to forsake the worship of linda's in tomorrow the attrition traditional gods of the erase as they regarded them as old-fashioned and inconsistent to embrace the faith of the platinum dragon an attitude that put them at odds with the older gold dragons who worshipped those too young to dragon gods with fanatical devotion although this conflict never generate into outright violence religious intolerance became quite widespread among the whole gold dragons something that they had had no precedence until that time and it never happened since perhaps the most well known of these conflicts to modern scholars is the dragon for war fought between the followers of Baphomet and tm8 that began around minus 30,000 er when followers of bar Matt slew Nagas met the worm general of Tiamat during the ensuing battles TMF unleashed all sorts of dragon light beings aberrant creatures that we can know became known as the spawn of Tiamat to counter them Baphomet created his own agents the original dragon born to act as his knights and soldiers over time drew Konica philosophers came to the conclusion that all of the fighting was wasteful and that the gods who allowed such behavior were not worthy of their worship some believe this behavior was influenced by the gods Alcon there's a way to stop the dragon wars others believe some dragons feared that if they continued battling in each other in such coral they would eventually face extinction and of course don't forget that during this time they face the pressure of the Giants as well those dragons that were worried about their survival came up with a solution instead of battling each other dominance among them would be established by status and to determine this they developed this highly complex solvent our game eventually most dragons turned away from the war and from religion in general the started the Dragons apathy towards their course which lasted for a thousand years and it was speculated that several members of the original draconic Pantheon just died and vanished from the world multiverse due to lack of worship only the followers of our Mountain team at didn't lose their faith towards the gods and continued the fighting the dragon for war it was prophesied among the few remaining worshippers of the true chronic gods that a turning of the great cycle would foretell the return of religious fervour among dragon kind this turning happened in 1373 dr after the last rage of dragons dis decimated most of the Taconic population in faerûn and this realization sparked the need of dragons to look to the help of the gods once more the dragon gods who survived the long years without worshipers received a great influx of power from the new draconic were followers however this also threatened favouring with the possibility of a new battle in the Dragon for war the dragon for war was a conflict between true chronic followers of Muhammad and TMS part of the largest civil wars known as the draco holy wars in some respect the conflict never ended that began in the time of dragons - 1000 - 30,000 year when followers of Xiamen slew Naga met and it's continued ever since the Tiamat unleashed all sorts of dragon light beings the spawn of tmn and the most recent era of the conflict and the war but occurred between - 2087 dr and - 1071 dr on Anantha upon the arrival of Tiamat Scholten anther priests of Enlil began to claim that she was the Nemesis of the gods and the god kings claimed that she was responsible for unfearing setbacks this conflict was concluded with the death of Tiamat at the hands of Marduk who she also killed during the Battle of the Gods and - 1071 dr after the last rage of dragons in 1373 dr the dragon the population of favoring regained their intent interests in worship and the Taconic pantheon this made the followers of Beaumont and Tim ads began preparations for a possible new battle in the war between the two dragon gods and that my friends brings us to the close of this first video and the remastered dragon series if you'd like me to talk about dragon gods of other world settings such as gray Hawk dark Sun Iran and so on I'll be mentioning them of in many of my future videos so stay tuned please hit the like button if you made it this far subscribe if you like what I do check out my patreon for some exclusive content and all the full scripts of these videos buy some merchandise we all geek with Brian as always thanks for listening and I'll be back with more for you very soon 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Published: Sat Mar 28 2020